[KC Burke]

I did a lot of building on the north side of Sacramento. The levees in that whole area of California are a joke to me. I spent most of my life in Kansas City along the Missouri and Kaw River. We learned what bad levees did in the 1951 flood and in the ‘93 flood.

California has neglected this just waiting for a disaster so that Federal money will come fix it.

[RayChuang88]

Actually, the levees in the Sacramento area along the Sacramento and American Rivers were extensively shored up between 1998 and 2004 after that VERY scary situation in January 1997 when the American River came within a few feet of overflowing its banks due to a massive Pineapple Express storm. I should know--I saw all the construction work going on near my current house with a lot of earth moving equipment to shore up the levees on both sides of the American River.